Publication shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award

Imagination in an Age of Crisis, a book co-edited by Jason Goroncy and Rod Pattenden, has just been shortlisted for the 2023 Australian Christian Book of the Year Award.

The final winner will be announced at the end of August.

Publication details:

Imagination in an Age of Crisis
Soundings from the Arts and Theology
Jason Goroncy, Rod Pattenden
Pickwick Publications
ISBN: 9781666706888

This book explores the vital role of the imagination in today’s complex climates–cultural, environmental, political, racial, religious, spiritual, intellectual, etc. It asks: What contribution do the arts make in a world facing the impacts of globalism, climate change, pandemics, and losses of culture? What wisdom and insight, and orientation for birthing hope and action in the world, do the arts offer to religious faith and to theological reflection? These essays, poems, and short reflections–written by art practitioners and academics from a diversity of cultures and religious traditions–demonstrate the complex cross-cultural nature of this conversation, examining critical questions in dialogue with various art forms and practices, and offering a way of understanding how the human imagination is formed, sustained, employed, and expanded. Marked by beauty and wonder, as well as incisive critique, it is a unique collection that brings unexpected voices into a global conversation about imagining human futures.